June 13, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Physical helplessness sold as innovation. Outsourcing our thinking, creativity, and actions to the digital invisible—the chatbot—comes at a cost few consider. Touch, experiences in nature, cooking food, building fires, fixing things – lost in the addiction to...
June 12, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Moving into irrelevance When I was 23 years old, I spent five months travelling around the United States, visiting about 48 states. As an Aussie, I had been seduced by the allure of the United States, as portrayed in movies and the news. Social media and smartphones...
June 11, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
To change the future we need to change who we listen to It is the old adage. Same thinking, same result. Listen to the same people, more of the same. Change is incremental at best. We need transformation. I was listening to one of my favourite podcasts this week, and...
June 10, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Intuition in a vacuum is bad feedback Our intuition is similar to AI. Applied Statistics, or AI, can only take responses to questions from a closed container, a black box. What you put in the box determines the response. Put in Western thinking, which, if we are...
June 9, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings
To be grounded I remember when I was in my thirties and a boyfriend told me I was not grounded. It was more a projection than a truth, however the question made me consider what it is to be grounded. To have your feet on the Earth, barefoot, is a metaphor. Tethered to...
June 8, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
A waste of ingenuity On this day, June 8th, the first real taste of winter arrived. It comes with cloudless skies and a stunning dawn. The first migrating whale is spotted, heading north to warmer waters to breed. In my part of the world, we really only have two...
